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• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  big MIT event, there's a lot of hype, rumor, and mythology surrounding it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect, and what not to expect. Your host: A team of admissions staff and MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  University, where for six weeks, I've be living and working with middle school ... writing an "apologies for being too hosed to post" entry and never finished ... it and don't recall ever writing the thing anyway. I've always liked

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  wheel, so Fatima and I made up fake identities on the spot. Our guises ... a running joke between Fatima and me that started about a week before ... free for MIT students. I filled out an online application and reserved an

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  , and I just graduated from MIT in June with degrees in brain and ... the following: 1. Analyzing data and writing as much as I can on the rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  our football team is a true Division III team, and the players play for ... the MIT football roster, and as I expected, there he was, along with the ... , looked interested, and did well. So, I had to go, and I dragged my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to ... help me keep everything in perspective about my work, and they're always

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  , when I was sitting at work... er... my room... and I noticed Matt's entry ... if anyone has made an interesting comment, and I've noticed that some ... normal routine. And mine definitely has been. To prove it, here's a play

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  visualizes dependencies and degree requirements, and lets you drag and drop ... with a propellor hat fashion resurgence and an infamous tenure as East Campus Historian, is the ubiquitous and indispensable CourseRoad, an open

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... named Joel Moore from Berkeley, and his talk is on "Topological Insulators and Their Implications for Electronic Order." Don't know what those are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... Jamboree in Quebec City. We spent three days in Quebec City and four days in Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  pirates and– It’s all fake. Pirates Shanties aren’t real. You’ve been lied ... I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that ... semester."]2.S02[/annotation], and 21M.299. The last one is a world music

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  pictures. Here are some headlines:   Thomas DeFrantz and the Dancing Body of the State    Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a former MIT professor and current professor of African-American Studies and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  interest in AI and got to become the first student from my university's CS ... in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who ... , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  like 12:30-1 and walk around Boston CJ: i have hw CJ: but fuck that CJ ... -down and slacks; I’m wearing a t-shirt and shorts. “Couldn’t be wearing ... Boston University, a few stops down the Green Line. They debated asteroid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  closer to the universe, and the universe closer to me. About halfway ... deliberation, all the conversations and requests for advice and frustration and questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  , I did a thing. And it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of if I do ... components to the event, the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) and the official ... one of our media leads and the legendary brakes czar, Rebecca '24, but I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  immortalized in the history of the Institute, I opened my email and found a post ... was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... laundry server for the latest news on conditions in Random's washers and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  first meetings between Rosa and Ben, Ben states that he took orgo ... Harvard Med School, after attaining 1590 SAT, 44 MCAT, and a 4.0 GPA* at MIT. Moreover, he is bored with his life as an academic superstar and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  visiting Florida State University with another family. We were sprawled on ... radio. It was drizzling. I parked facing the forest and turned my ... . For the most part, I'd been straddling apathy and fatigue. But I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021